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Re: su makes not proper root




On Sep 29, 2014, at 12:20 PM, Terho Uotila wrote:

On Sat, 27 Sep 2014 07:37:31 +0200
Zoran Kolic wrote:

On raspberry pi I installed 7.99 and use
su to get root. At first, I spoted that,
during shutdown, message says it came from
zoran@localhost. I expected root@localhost.

NetBSD su remembers your login id, unlike su used in some other OS.
Try id -p as root to see this.


Just thought I'd add, that it adds SU_FROM to environment .



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